| Show MAY HAVE TO SUE MORAN MORA J Street Paving in Ogden Done by Him Not Satisfactory Engineer Says It becomes more evident each day that litigation between P J Moran the tho Salt Lake contractor and the city will result resultS S over oer the contracts secured by Moran in Ogden on account of the claim that the work he hc did here in street paving was Wast t unsatisfactory and that tha work Is of an 1111 inferior quality to that th t called for in ini Ina uha i a contract The city engineer cn engineer who with witha jW W a street committee was empowered by jhc jh 1 lie city council to Investigate the work is of the opinion that Moran can be held responsible I When Moran had finished the work and the time had expired for holding the guar guarantee guarantee guarantee antee fund he was required to give gIe bonds to protect the city The rhe pavement soon began to wear weal and crack and the con contractor contractor contractor tractor was called upon to repair it He came to Ogden and asked the city elt en cn engineer to indicate whore where wh re the city desired the he paving patched but the city engineer refused to point out the places forthe for Ithe reason that had he done so 50 it would have freed Moran from responsibility Moran then filled In the holes and cov covered covered covered ered the seams but he lie was not released from the bonds The time on the bonds expired in December and the city engi engineer engineer engineer neer notified the surety company of the work being unsatisfactory but nothing has been heard from either the company com pan panor or the contractor since Moran loran also laid the concrete on Twenty fourth street between Washington ton and Grant avenues No estimate has been given him as yet for this work it being refused because of at being unsatisfactory Interest on the money expended by Moran is all that has been paid on this job and it Is likely that this will also have to be straightened out in th tbt courts The city engineer says sas that he offered to settle the street disa disagreement disagreement by arbitration but that Moran te r rejected e d the th offer ss |
